Purpose To produce information on environmental practices and behaviours which will assist the government and other organisations to develop environmental policies and programs.

Description Environmental Attitudes and Practices collects information from the household sector on environment topics. Surveys were conducted in 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1998 and are based on interviews with households. Surveys are planned for 1999 and 2000.

Environmental Protection Expenditure collects information using economic collections covering agriculture, mining, manufacturing and service industries. Information is also collected from Local Government and compiled for the public sector from budget statements.

Other compedium publications are also produced (4601.0 and 4605.0) using data from a variety of sources (ABS and non-ABS).

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